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To me, this elevator-only access at Spadina will become one of the coolest aspects of our (finally) evolving rapid transit network. The only other example I’m aware of in Canada of elevator-reliant stations is Édouard-Montpetit (REM). Not to sound like a foamer, but elevators are essentially...

Adding to my original post… This (only) wooden, abandoned escalator at Alperton station is just beautiful: Source Before abandonment, courtesy of the London Transport Museum archive: Source These skylights (by Charles Holden) really are reminiscent of the lighting at Dupont: at: 16:10...

^ Could you rename this thread: ”Hidden World Hangouts”? I’d love to hear from everyone about the quirks in their public transport systems. Edit: Thank you!!!

I’ve truly fallen in love with the London Transport Museum’s: Hidden London Hangouts series on YouTube. Today I want to showcase Angel station. It truly is a fascinating station… this is how it looked before as a centre platform station: Source And after, with a second platform added for...

Thanks for bringing up the Jabodebek LRT. It really is a good example: Source

These Fires really got me thinking - How resilient are the elevated structures on the REM to earthquakes? It’s surprising to see all the single-pier spans on the West Island branch - even highway overpasses (typically) have/had more piers to distribute the load. Then there’s all the stations...

When can we expect to start seeing the Alstom Lints get repainted/wrapped to the ”Maple Leaf” livery? It would be silly to leave them as oddballs with the ”DB” livery.

^ Sorry @NoahB, or anyone who can answer this - I assume the junction shown above is where the Deux-Montagnes and Anse-à-l'Orme/YUL branches diverge. If so, how will the YUL branch diverge from the Anse-à-l'Orme branch? Will it also be grade-separated, or at-grade (like UP Express)? This really...

I wasn’t at all aware that there was a proper flying junction on the REM where branches divide near Sunnybrooke. Thank you to @grimley on AgoraMtl for the pic! Post This four-track section looks so cool!!

Oh wow, I hadn’t realized Buffalo got in on the S+B faregates! Source Did they piggyback on a Metrolinx/TTC/Ottawa order?

For comparison: Before: Now: Source: The article listed above by @drum118 What immediately concerns me, as @smallspy noted with multiple routes stopping there, is any hindrance caused to Emergency Vehicles from the resulting queuing of buses/automobiles.

Would it be possible to alter the City’s contract with the current Advertisement Company in charge of the TTC’s shelters to display bus/streetcar arrival times on their new LCD Ad-displays? Example: Source I was thinking of showing next arrivals in a similar way to the format they use to...

I’ll give you that… This, in my opinion has more to do with our lax drivers licensing standards. - - - Why for the the first time has public transit been made so unsafe in the West… could it have something to do with policies about (not) prosecuting criminals? Maybe @Admiral Beez would like...

This is exactly why I refuse to let my vulnerable, elderly family member take public transit alone anymore. I couldn’t live with allowing them to become a needless victim. They used take the TTC all the time, my whole family did. After us living here for ~50 years, public transit is ”almost...

This was such a missed opportunity for the Mississauga Transitway 403-section. They could’ve easily implemented stops this way at Creditview/Mississauga Rds. Not for cars to gain access to the highway, but so that nearby residents could easily board the buses passing them by.

Didn’t know exactly where to post this… I was shocked to see that the new bidirectional Škoda trams for the Helsinki Ring Line feature two pantographs on each consist, one over each cab-end. They raise/lower them at the termini so that the joint (’ <^) is always facing in the direction of...

Take ”Coca-Cola” out of it, and look at the deeper message… I dearly long for the loving, tolerant Canada I (first generation) grew up in. What do we expect to achieve with this racial division? The Bolsheviks knew it well. My European country was essentially a colony of Sweden for ~600 years...

Here’s hoping that they don’t go after Kennedy next, considering the popularity RFK Jr. has gained in the States, and the TTC would have to change its’ rollsigns. Maybe at this point they should just install LCD-screens for station signage. It would at least be cheaper in the long run, than...

I’m honestly getting tired of this ”1984”-style renaming of everything. It started with the renaming of LeBreton (Flats) station in Ottawa to Pimisi (dishonouring the history of the fire that destroyed the community), then Dominion to Kichi Sibi. Then on the GO network, Lincolnville got renamed...

Oh, the irony in the fact that the station rendering at the top of this page says ”Steeles West”… Who was the councillor that demanded the renaming to Pioneer Village in the first place? Maybe they should pay for all the associated signage changes.